The Long Island Ducks hit two-run home runs in both the sixth and seventh innings to win 8-7 and complete a three-game sweep of the Patriots, who dropped to 1-5 for the first-time in the franchise’s 13-year history.

It marks the first team the club has been swept since Aug. 24-26 of last season and the first five-game losing streak since a six-game slide Aug. 17-21, 2008. That stretch included four straight losses at Long Island.

Josh Pressley put the Patriots ahead with a two-run home run in the first inning but the Ducks scored once in the first inning and three times in the third off starter Justin Jones, who lasted only three innings in his season debut.

The Patriots tied the score with two runs in the fifth and took a short-lived lead on a RBI groundout by Joe Burke in the sixth.

But Matt Cavagnaro hit the go-ahead home run in the bottom of the sixth off Jason Monti and Matt Esquivel added what proved to be the decisive insurance home run against Darryl Arreola.

Noah Hall, who just missed a go-ahead two-run home run on the first pitch of his at-bat, grounded out to end the game with the potential tying run stranded on third base. The Patriots scored twice in the ninth inning.

Somerset started 2-4 in 2008 and 2009 — and won the Atlantic League championship both seasons.